A View of the Principal Deistical Writers that Have Appeared in England in the Last and Present Century: With Observations Upon Them, and Some Account of the Answers that Have Been Published Against Them. In Several Letters to a Friend, Том 2B. Dod, 1755 - Всего страниц: 483 |
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... wisdom . Valuable ends may be affigned for miracles . They are capable of be- ing proved by proper teftimony . This applied to the refurrection of Chrift . And it is fhewn , that the evidence reprefented in Scripture is every way fuffi ...
... wisdom . Valuable ends may be affigned for miracles . They are capable of be- ing proved by proper teftimony . This applied to the refurrection of Chrift . And it is fhewn , that the evidence reprefented in Scripture is every way fuffi ...
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... wisdom , power , and goodness , as determine us by the moft natural way of reasoning in the world , to acknowledge a most wife , and powerful , and benign author and caufe of the univerfe . The inference is not beyond the reach of our ...
... wisdom , power , and goodness , as determine us by the moft natural way of reasoning in the world , to acknowledge a most wife , and powerful , and benign author and caufe of the univerfe . The inference is not beyond the reach of our ...
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... wisdom and defign which we may obferve in this univerfe that we do know , because we do not know any thing of any other universe . This grand univerfal fyftem , and even that small part of it that we are more particularly acquainted ...
... wisdom and defign which we may obferve in this univerfe that we do know , because we do not know any thing of any other universe . This grand univerfal fyftem , and even that small part of it that we are more particularly acquainted ...
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... wisdom as well as power beyond all imagi- nation great and wonderful . And we may justly conclude the fame concerning those parts of the Univerfe that we are not acquainted with . And for any man to fay , that we cannot reasonably ...
... wisdom as well as power beyond all imagi- nation great and wonderful . And we may justly conclude the fame concerning those parts of the Univerfe that we are not acquainted with . And for any man to fay , that we cannot reasonably ...
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... wisdom in thofe things , the designs and ends of which we do not know . It would be wrong therefore to confine the ... wisdom and con- trivance , which upon a fuller knowledge of the works of nature , furnifh farther convin- cing proofs ...
... wisdom in thofe things , the designs and ends of which we do not know . It would be wrong therefore to confine the ... wisdom and con- trivance , which upon a fuller knowledge of the works of nature , furnifh farther convin- cing proofs ...
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Стр. 62 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Стр. 434 - But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
Стр. 10 - But do we pretend to be acquainted with the nature of the human soul and the nature of an idea, or the aptitude of the one to produce the other?
Стр. 82 - ... and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves ; of such undoubted integrity as to place them beyond all suspicion of any design to deceive others ; of such credit and reputation in the eyes of mankind as to have a great deal to lose in case of...
Стр. 497 - God will bring every work into judgment, with every fecret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Стр. 61 - ... there is proof against proof, of which the strongest must prevail, but still with a diminution of its force, in proportion to that of its antagonist.
Стр. 473 - God ? haft thou not known ? haft thou not heard, that the everlafting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not, neither is weary ? there is no fearching of his underftanding. He giveth power to the faint ; and to them that have no might, he increafeth ftrength.
Стр. 625 - But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required : and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Стр. 352 - ... of the rants of the Portic, that we owe our virtue to ourselves, not to God. It would be equally false to say, that we owe our happiness to ourselves, not to God. But this may be said with truth, that God, when he gave us reason, left us to our free-will to make a proper, or improper, use of it: so that we are obliged to our Creator for a certain rule and sufficient means of arriving at happiness, and have none to blame but ourselves, when we fail of it.
Стр. 63 - But, according to the principle here explained, this subtraction with regard to all popular religions amounts to an entire annihilation, and therefore we may establish it as a maxim that no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion.